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I thought that RO said last night that TLHS was filmed during the hiatus of CAT when they took a filming break to let Taylor recover from Todd's death. So it sounded like TLHS wasnt filmed until CAT already had started...........
Taylor took a break, several weeks I believe, after her husband's death. She didn't do anything, other than stay at home crying; certainly she didn't film.anything until she returned to CAT.
In the meantime,.I believe the suddenly hot, just married duo of Newman and Woodward, did RALLY ROUND THE FLAG BOYS, but THE LONG HOT SUMMER had already been released.
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TLHS was released in March 1958 I believe, the same month that CAT started.filming. TLHS was a popular and.critical.success, and this filmed.cemented.Paul Newman as.a star. Yes,.the film.may have been done to compete with the Broadway success of CAT, and I agree that CAT is the better film, but again, the relative number of times each is shown on TCM has much to do with how they are perceived. That said, SUMMER is still.a.well.made melodrama.of.its type, and quite enjoyable, even with Welles' unfettered scene chewing.Both films were released in 1958 by two competing companies. Jerry Wald Productions/Fox, and MGM. It is obvious that in trying to beat MGM to the big screen, Jerry Wald rushed his film into production using a patch-work of different Falkner stories, while MGM used a major high quality Tennessee Williams play and made a well-produced film out of it.
In popularity, the poorly made Long Hot Summer lost out to the higher quality of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was nominated for 6 Academy Awards.
Nothing to take away from CAT, which I love, but the main reason for its success was the scandal.that broke out right before its release, in which the recently widowed Liz Taylor, "stole" Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds, outraging as well as fascinating the nation. Many believe Liz lost Best Actress due to the notoriety.
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Rally Round the Flag Boys (1958) wasn't bad--not near as bad as 1958 reviews led me to expect. Paul Newman and Joan Collins (as an ignored suburban housewife looking for diversion) are quite good--Joanne Wooodward isn't bad-- but the script lets everyone down, and RRTFB ends up as a minor amusement/credit for the stars. Thank you TCM, for searching this out.
While I agree this comedy is ok, and the cast.is as well generally, I think the main weakness are Newman and Woodward's not very adept abilities as farceurs. Joan Collins was quite good, and better, I think, than the original choice for that role would have been, Jayne Mansfield.
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I think THE LONG HOT SUMMER is a very poor "adaptation" of several different Faulkner stories. The acting is bad, Varner trying to marry his daughter to a jobless bum and drifter is silly. The fake Mississippi accents were awful. This seemed to be a look-alike imitation of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, like in the beginning when Boss Varner returns from Memphis in an ambulance after serious medical surgery. I expected the little no-neck kids to start running and screaming around the big house.
Considering.that THE LONG HOT SUMMER was filmed and released before CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF,.the former.could not be considered an imitation of the latter, unless you want to say that Faulkner was imitating Williams. In the 50s, florid southern gothic stories were popular, and two of the main sources.were the aforementioned writers. Most likely, since TLHS was a TCM premiere, and COAHTR is shown frequently, the relative familiarity with each probably colors how these.are perceived by TCM viewers.
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Thelma Ritter in A LETTER TO THREE WIVES.
In response to Linda Darnell asking,."Sadie,.will you get the door?"
"My union doesn't like me doing this kind of thing for free, but ok".
And in response to Connie Gilchrist, "Is he (Porter) gonna really be at Addie Ross' party?"
"Listen, when they hire Sadie Duggan as a waitress, they submit a guest list".
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I met Robert.Downey Jr. at a bar in Hollywood, back in the late.80s. He was nice about the drink I spilled on him.
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I've met Geena Davis.andJeff Goldblum, back when they were first dating. I was in Westwood.standing in line to see a movie. They were very friendly, and surprisingly tall.
Back then, also in.Westwood for the same.reason, I met Julie Newmar,.still looking stunning.
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THE BAD AND THE BIGHEADED CRUISE TWO WEEKS FROM.TOWN.TO.ANOTHER TOWN. In which a self-important melagomaniacal film.writer becomes a rising power and feels he influences columnists and bloggers to write about him, and feels is a muse to others, inspiring all to feats of greatness. All this is revealed in flashback, when the individual is found murdered while taking.a.cruise,.and several suspects.recount their run-ins with him. Starring a cast.that.would wet the dreams of any self respecting name.dropper, it is headed by Kirk Douglas, after the original choice of Tor Johnson passed on it, feeling the protagonist had no redeeming values and was.unbelievably gauche. Man overboard.
Of course, several years later, in the sincerest form of flattery category, The Love.Boat did a two-parter using this storyline. Tor Johnson did an unbilled cameo in this version, as a whale.sunning itself off.the starboard side.
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In summer, people have more free time.
It's the cliffhanging aspect that is riveting everyone to the question of the day.......
.....Will Tor marry Mary AsTor?
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Actually, I think they are mentioned. When Flynn says that the king should have been doing his job in England, not fighting in foreign lands, doesn't the king say "what, you condemn Holy Crusades?"
No one has mentioned Richard Greene's take on Robin, in film and television.
Richard Greene did SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST in 1960, after several years of his TV show, "Robin Hood". TCM.has shown it.
Cornel Wilde did BANDITS OF SHERWOOD FOREST (1946), and not having seen it in decades, I'm not sure, but I believe he plays Robin Hood's son.
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Yeah, the Patricia Neal comparison was less annoying to my mother in terms of the physical appearance.
I think it was Patricia Neal's deeper voice that was the issue.
As to voice, both my paternal uncle and.grandfather sounded.like Walter Brennan, except the only spoke.Spanish. Weirdly, as this uncle aged, he began to uncannily resemble Brennan.
I would think saying someone sounds like Andy Devine would be fighting words.
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..enough free time so that this thread probably has more views than it deserves.
DGF, for.once your.sense of humor fails you......you are commenting with a straight face.to allusions to Tor Johnson......torrent,.torpor......
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This includes an unusual number of old threads being.resurrected, including the inexplicable and confusing return of one on SUTS 2013.I don't know what it is, but these past few weeks have been marvellous.
Lots of activity, lots of entertainment, lots of camaraderie. These boards are happening.
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You're perioding again.
Yeah, it seems to come in regular monthly cycles for a few days.
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Yes, I'm very much looking forward to Alan Arkin's day.
I've been wanting to see LITTLE MURDERS for awhile.
Alan Arkin directed the movie as well as acted in it.
The cast also includes Elliott Gould, Vincent Gardenia and Donald Sutherland.
The movie is adapted from the play by Jules Feiffer which lasted for only 7 performances on Broadway but was later successfully produced in London.
I love those American movies from the early 1970s.
Well, it appears that the programmers must come on here and pay attention. There has been discussion here, even buzz, re. 3 Fox titles that are included in SUTS, two that recently returned to FMC in the last year or so (THE EGYPTIAN, LITTLE MURDERS), and another that has been mentioned as not having been shown in years on that rival channel (THIEVES HIGHWAY). So they must've checked.into the doability of these movies, and voila. I'd like to know what other titles they have tried to get, but haven't as yet, but I'm happy for now.
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Would've been a two-fer with Shelley Winters too.
'Kitten with a Whip' is sorely missed. So's 'Stagecoach'.
I think I'm gonna have to give up on ever seeing 'Drum', though. But, yeah - there's a couple of gems there.
So many good ones I'd like to see. 'The Changeling' and 'Exorcist III' would've been marvellous.
I forgot that Ann Margret was in the remake of that.classic road.film.
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I don't know what it is, but these past few weeks have been marvellous.
Lots of activity, lots of entertainment, lots of camaraderie. These boards are happening.
Some much needed levity as well. This isn't a graduate.film.studies course.
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I assume you mean My Man Godfrey which does have great opening credits with the lights displaying the actors names and slowly turning off some of the blubs and turning them on when going from actor to actor. But I don't recall any stick figures. Where those used in My Man Gidfrey???
I don't know.where the stick figures come in, someone else mentioned.that. Maybe they are confusing another Carole Lombard.film,.NOTHING'S SACRED,.where she and Fredric March are presented as exagerated puppetoon type.figures during the opening.credits. Cute, atypical beginning for that period.
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SHADOWS OF THE TWELVE ANGRY THIN MEN. Tor Johnson gives a bravura performance portraying all the members of a jury, yelling at.himself in a dozen voices as they grapple with the fate of an accused man. One of the personae he portrays, the jury foreman, spends his nights sleuthing as.he looks for clues. In the midst of the tense proceedings, he blows off steam by imbibing cocktails at one Manhattan watering hole after another, along.with his droll wife,TorA, and their witty bantering.provides moments of much needed levity. Unfortunately, he decided to take his wire terrier to the deliberations. And in the surprise ending to this tense, grim film, AsTor ate the verdict.
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On Wednesday, 6/3, @ 6 am est, FMC will air the second film Linda Darnell ever made, DAY-TIME WIFE (1939). She was not yet 16 when she made it. Costarring for the first of four times with 20th Century Fox' top male star, Tyrone Power, she inherited a part that had been tailor-made for Loretta Young, who had refused to renew her contrsct with Fox.
This amiable screwball comedy has Linda as a young bride who wants to know why her husband is spending so much time at the office, and decides to find out by getting a job as a secretary; her boss is roguish cad Warren William. Also in the cast are Wendy Barrie, Binnie Barnes and Joan Davis.
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Sunday, 5/31:
4 am: GOOD MORNING MISS DOVE (1955)................6 am: REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (1938)..............7:30 am: TEENAGE REBEL (1956)...............9:10 am: BLUE DENIM (1959)..............10:45 am: GOOD MORNING MISS DOVE (1955).............
MONDAY, 6/1:
3 am: THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH (1963)............4:15 am: YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING (1937).............6 am: THE BROKEN LAND (1962)...................7:05 am: DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952)................ 8:25 am: TAMPICO (1944).................9:45 am: WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937)....................11:30 am: FOUR MEN AND A PRAYER (1938)................1 pm: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)............
Tuesday, 6/2:
3 am: TEENAGE REBEL (1956)...............4:35 am: DREAMBOAT (1952).............6 am: WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937)...................7:45 am: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)...............9:50 am: TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942)...............12 pm: DREAMBOAT (1952)...............1:25 pm: TEENAGE REBEL (1956.
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When I read the title, I thought you wanted to know our reactions to S L U T S.......LOL!
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Not as much as she thinks she is (LOL) She's a little vain, but she has aged well. She's a bit younger than Jane though. They had similar bone structure. My mother was a darker blonde..........
My mother was also on the vain side. In her youth, she was often compared to Hedy Lamarr, Linda Darnell, Maria Felix and Yvonne DeCarlo. She loved recounting that until the end.
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Here are the links again to the lineup.
Thanks for the links Holden, it is most helpful. Especially for a not too computer savvy person like myself, at work, without the time to try figuring out how to access which movies are selected for the various stars.
The Robin Hood Legend in Hollywood
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I totally agree with your comments here.
One of the most.intriguing "what ifs" in Hollywood history, imho, is the sequel to the Flynn film that WB planned to make in 1940,."Sir Robin of Lockley", reuniti.g many of the same actors. Too bad it was.never made.